The Prime Minister Seduced Me to have Babies!-Chapter 609: Completely Vanished
Liang Yan considered seriously for half a day, then replied, "I am willing to follow the young master to the Gu Family."
Yun Jiao asked, "The Duke Mansion certainly has more prospects than the Gu Family, why do you want to follow him there?"
Liang Yan answered, "At the Duke Mansion, I used to do odd jobs and no one ever respected me. It wasn’t until I started following the young master that people began to regard me seriously."
"I once heard a saying, better to be a chicken head than a bull’s tail. At the Duke Mansion, I’m afraid I would never have the chance to stand out, spending my life doing insignificant chores. But the young master only has me as a servant, and I’m willing to follow him. When I grow old, if I can become a steward for the young master, it would mean that I’ve made it."
Yun Jiao found his reasoning sensible and evident that he had thought about it thoroughly.
So she requested Lady Wu for Liang Yan’s indenture contract, allowing him to follow Gu Chuan to school every day.
Yun Jiao herself did not dare to move over there yet. Although Yan Beichen had lost many of his men and wouldn’t dare act openly in the Capital City, sending a few people to quietly seize her in the middle of the night was still relatively easy.
Even with the two female guards, Lei Ying and Lei Xia, it was not guaranteed.
Within a few days, a rumor spread in the Capital City about an official who resigned and returned home, being robbed and murdered on the official road.
The couple and a maid were all killed, their child was missing, and their property was completely looted.
Yun Jiao intentionally had someone inquire about it and heard that the case was taken up by the Ministry of Justice, as the robbers only took the money, without touching the victims’ luggage and travel permits, hence the Ministry quickly identified who they were.
The Ministry sent an official document to call for Chen Song’s family to come to the capital and identify the bodies.
Chen Song’s hometown was near Xiang City, and by the time the message was delivered, about twenty days had already passed.
Chen Song’s family received the news like a bolt from the blue, and his two brothers quickly packed up to head for the Capital City.
By the time they arrived in the Capital, almost forty days had passed since the Ministry uncovered the bodies.
The date had already entered May, and the weather was getting warmer, causing the bodies to start decomposing and secreting fluids.
Especially Chen Song’s face, which had been slashed twice, making identification impossible.
Chen Song’s two brothers didn’t dare look closely, hastily identified the bodies, and then burned them to ashes outside the city—there was no other choice, as the bodies were too decomposed to be taken back to their hometown.
Chen Song’s peers and colleagues had already learned of the news, sighed for a while, and upon the departure of Chen Song’s two brothers, gathered some silver taels to send over as a token of their condolences.
After this, Chen Song’s presence in the world completely vanished.
Gu Yuheng hid at home for a period, and his beard gradually grew out.
Previously, Mrs. Niu wouldn’t allow him to keep a beard, saying it made him look old.
Now, he had let his beard grow, which made him look several years older, widening the age gap between him and Chen Song even more.
However, Yun Jiao still wouldn’t allow him to go out yet, saying he needed to wait a few more months until his beard had grown a bit more.
As the weather warmed, the workshop reached its busiest time—not only needed to produce perfume but also flower dew—causing Yun Jiao to head out early and return late every day.
Meanwhile, at the Duke Mansion, Lady Wu also got busy because Jiang Han was about to get married.
The wedding date had been decided the previous year. Lady Wu would prefer not to get involved, but she had no choice. If she truly left it to Aunt Su, wouldn’t it make others think Aunt Su was the true mistress of the Duke Mansion?
